*Chosen as a 2024 highlight in the Guardian, the Financial Times, Esquire and the New European*
Franz Kafka is widely regarded as one of the great geniuses of twentieth-century literature. What happens when some of the most original literary minds of today take an idea, a mood or a line from his work and use it to spark something new?
From a future society who ask their AI servants to construct a giant tower to reach God; to a flat hunt that descends into a comically absurd bureaucratic nightmare; to a population experiencing a wave of unbearable, contagious panic attacks, these ten specially commissioned stories are by turns mind-bending, funny, unsettling and haunting. Inspired by the visionary imagination of a writer working one hundred years ago, they speak powerfully to the strangeness of being alive today.
by Ali Smith (Author) , Tommy Orange (Author) , Naomi Alderman (Author) , Helen Oyeyemi (Author) , Keith Ridgway (Author) , Yiyun Li (Author) , Charlie Kaufman (Author) , Elif Batuman (Author) , Becca Rothfeld (Introduction By) , Leone Ross (Author) , Joshua Cohen (Author)
